Giant's Causeway : Frederick Douglass's Irish odyssey and the making of an American visionary / / Tom Chaffin

• Autore: Chaffin Tom
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
• Disciplina: 973.8092
• Soggetto topico: African American abolitionists; African American orators
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Description and travel; Ireland Race relations History 19th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: Great Brunswick Street -- Chronology -- Prologue: Commercial Wharf -- Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845 -- "They need no credentials" -- RMS Cambria -- "Throw him overboard" -- Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846 -- Dublin -- Friend Webb -- A storm over Drayton -- The Liberator -- Cork -- The apostle of temperance -- Limerick -- Belfast -- "The half has not been told" -- Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847 -- Britain -- "Lonely pilgrimage" -- RMS Cambria redux -- "This piteous storm" -- America, 1847-1865 -- "I am now buying type" -- "Mr. Editor, if you please" -- "Ourselves alone" -- "Self-made man" -- "Abolition war" -- Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895 -- "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood" -- Denouements -- Janus days -- "A height above the work and the world" -- A note on sources.
• Titolo autorizzato: Giant's Causeway
• ISBN: 0-8139-3611-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806910303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II